Xenophobia: An irrational fear of foreigners. Xenophobe's Guides: Small books that show the more you know the less you fear. Xenophobe's motto: Forewarned is forearmed.

Product Description: Companies rarely track their performance against long-term plans, and results often fail to meet projections. When companies do track performance, it seldom matches the prior year’s projection, and a great deal of value is lost in translation...read more

Fast track route to fostering and exploiting a creative dynamic in any organisation Covers the key areas of creative team working and brainstorming, leading projects with a creative output, choosing and backing winning ideas and motivating and rewarding staff Examples and lessons from some of the world's most creative businesses, including AOL Time-Warner, BMW, IDEO and Nortel Networks, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Edward de Bono, Gary Hamel, Richard Pascale and W. Chan Kim Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Managing Live Innovation examines the innovation process from the line manager's perspective. This book identifies the skills needed to manage live 'real time' innovation in an environment where products and services are constantly refined, and where customer input is encouraged from an early stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Can we identify the qualities that make a good leader? Are the characteristics that make a leader unchanging throughout time? Are leadership styles influenced by a person's background or sex? In short, are leaders born or bred? From basic theory to development and implementation, this work presents current thinking about the phenomena of leadership with nearly 100 articles from leading figures and writers...read more